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Holy Flame Bait, Batman!

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Posted on June 30, 2008 - 1:57pm at Tennessee Free
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Too much temptation to resist, I just had to link this comment by Bruce Baugh at Obsidian Wings:

I’ve said this before and will again: the very heart of the “widespread gun ownership checks tyranny” argument has been tested and failed completely.
For twenty years or more, political discourse in a whole lot of online forums was [...]

Groundrules Key to Healthy Reader Interaction on Media Blogs

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Posted on May 2, 2008 - 10:07am at Mesh Media Matters
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A reader of one my political blog sent me a cyptic message that one of our local newspapers was actively deleting readers’ comments posted to the paper’s blogs, and in some cases was trying to “out certain subscribers depending on their viewpoint.”

vocabulary

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Posted on December 3, 2007 - 5:36pm at Geek Thoughts
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I have noticed a recent trend in the office. Speech which i only "saw" in online forums and from high schoolers is working its way into spoken, workplace vocabulary. Phrases like "that effing stinks" and "W-T-F". These euphamisms for the F-bomb are nothing new, but it just sounds really funny outloud. I personally have been known to say "that was freaking amazing" and i know deep down that it is a substitute for alternative language, just like "what the heck", etc.

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